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Executing commands with PHP: using normal user, but its home directory is /root

I'm using a custom compiled installation of Apache + PHP, listening on port 80. Apache is configured to run as a normal user, with the proper settings User and Group of the httpd.conf file. After ...
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Arch Linux: I get 500 error when trying to open PHP file

I get the HTTP Error 500 (Internal Server Error) error with Chrome when trying to open a simple PHP file. I have installed Apache and PHP correctly as instructed in this article. Including the PHP ...
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Use an existing wampserver from a windows partition on linux mint

I dual boot Windows 7 and Linux Mint 14. I have wampserver installed on Win 7 and have a couple of websites already set up there. Is it possible to use that same installation apache/mysql/php ...
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Arch Linux: Apache just isn't interpreting the index.php files

Title is self explanatory. I'm on Arch Linux, I installed the apache, php, php-apache and mariadb packages. I have added the following line to the /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf file: LoadModule ...
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Debian - Apache 2.2 & mod_php - memory usage

I have a memory problem with my servers (Debian 6.0) where is installed Apache httpd 2.2, mod_php and APC. Actually it seems that httpd allocate all available memory (4GB) when is waiting too much ...
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centos 6.3 apache local network not working

I have clean installed centos, apache, mysql, php and have my php pages running fine at 192.168.1.66. I type that ip in on another computer (macbook) on the same network and get nothing. Page time ...
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Installing Ioncube loaders without issues CentOS 5.9

Seem to be having issues installing Ioncube loaders on CentOS 5.9. I followed this guide to install Ioncube: but it's still not working on the site at all, I keep getting this error on BoxBilling, ...
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Bash config files being read in contradiction to `man bash`

While trying to determine the differences between .bashrc and .bash_profile I notice that .bashrc is never read, and that .bash_profile is only read from SSH, but not from PHP. This seems to ...
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HTTPd shows PHP code instead of executing it

My setup: # grep php /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf LoadModule php5_module modules/libphp5.so AddType x-httpd-php .php AddHandler php5-script .php # grep PHP /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf PHPIniDir ...
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Cannot Access Webpage from Outside LAN

I have a CentOS 6.0 web server running httpd, mysql, php, and Joomla 2.5. It has a static, public IP address. I can access the webpage (which is the Joomla management console) by IP address perfectly ...
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Execute shell script from php, as root user?

Need to execute the following line from PHP: $res = shell_exec('sudo sh /home/nicklas/cronjobs/make_account.sh username password'); The problem is nothing happens on execution. If i try to ...
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How can I get crontab to use a different PHP installation location?

I have a MAMP setup which runs PHP 5.3.5 on my Mac OS X 10.5 computer. I am trying to install a crontab that executes a PHP script, which is located on my MAMP server. I can only get the crontab to ...
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apache and php Segmentation fault [closed]

I have recently migrated to Archlinux. I installed Apache, php and mysql according to the Arch Linux LAMP wiki page. Now I have setup a virtual host for my new Symfony project. For every request I ...
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Where to securely place files needed by PHP in Linux filesystem (according to FHS)

I have a PHP script running on my LAMP server that requires certain files in order to produce HTML content. The script is publicly accessible (i.e. http://example.com/script.php) but the files ...
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Changing IP address of Apache server using PHP statically

I want to statically assign the IP address of my Arch linux using php. I want to change the IP by using netmask,interface,broadcast,address & gateway. The user puts up the values into a html page. ...
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Start/stop program from website

I have some users on my machine that I allow to run small Mumble voice servers. I would like for them to be able to start/stop their voice server from a website (being ran by Apache). With the current ...
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How to set secure permissions for multiple users and multiple websites?

On a Gentoo 3.2.12 server with apache2+php, there are several websites running: /www /website1 /website2 ...etc The apache user should have read-only access to all the websites. There ...
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proper permissions under HTTP root with Apache2 + FastCGI + Suexec

I currently have a setup which runs Apache2 + FastCGI PHP + Suexec. As an example, I'm using /mnt/data/www/vhosts/inflex.co.uk/htdocs as a DocRoot for one of my virtual hosts. I have a script ...
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What should I teach in my Linux class? [closed]

I'm teaching a basic Unix class using Ubuntu. We've already covered basic Unix stuff such as: bash shell scripting file and directory permissions filesystem hierarchy common commands I would like ...
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Case-insensitive file system for production server?

The initial situation looks like this: The corporate software is PHP-based. It is delivered by Apache 2 on a Windows 2003 Server. It is big. It is a legacy of rather unprofessional developers who ...
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How to easily maintain the latest versions of Apache/ MySQL/ PHP on CentOS 6.2?

We have a few servers running CentOS 6.2 deploying web applications using Apache/ MySQL/ PHP. In the past we've just regularly run "yum update" to keep all the software up to date. As of right now ...
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Why don't I see the XAMPP page on Linux Mint?

I am trying to install PHP MySQL on Mint 12. I downloaded and installed XAMPP. According to the tutorial, when I go to localhost in a browser I should see this: Instead, I see: It works! This is ...
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What user should apache and PHP be running as? What permissions should /var/www files have?

I just spun up an Ubuntu 11.10 box and then ran apt-get install apache2 php5 to install apache2 and PHP 5 on the box. Now it is functioning as a "web server" and it loads the "It Works!" page. Now I'm ...
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suphp directory not owned by user

I have an odd problem with suphp. I have logged in as tom and added some php to a directory in my web server. Now I'm getting this error: Directory /home/.../web/public_html is not owned by tom I ...
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Troubles installing php with MySQL support

So I wasn't sure if this question would go best here or on Overflow or Server Fault, but decided to try here first. I'm installing LAMP on a VPS, and am running into issues configuring and building ...
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How can I monitor the load of a php script on a server?

We've got a website on our dedicated server which seems to be causing problems. Recently it has been crashing our dedicated server - it's very annoying. It will crash at random times. The tech ...
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Getting PHP fatal errors in vTiger while logging from a normal users [closed]

I am getting the error below and notices in Apache logs when I am trying to login with any normal user on vTiger although admin user is working fine and able to see everything as expected. Below are ...
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Running MPlayer through a PHP script

I'm trying to open an MPlayer instance on my server from a PHP script (using PHP's system() function). I've looked into making mplayer a slave ( http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/tech/slave.txt ) but when ...
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Apache 2 and PHP 5 not working

I have a test.php file in the web server directory with php phpinfo(); content. When I try to execute php test.php at a shell then it executes correctly. But when I try to open the web page in a ...
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Opening port 80 but remain secure

I have a standard installation of Ubuntu 10.04, and have installed the LAMP stack so I can do some web development locally. On my router I have opened port 80 so I can develop with external services ...
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Getting PHP to work with apache to run .php files through browser

I have VPS running Debian 5.0 (I think) and I would like to get it to run PHP files. I was told it needed to be configured with Apache. I tried entering the command apt-get install apache2 php5 ...
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“Too many arguments to function” error while installing php5-pdo_mysql from ports in FreeBSD

I'm having a trouble while installing php5-pdo_mysql in my FreeBSD environment. Everytime I trys to do /usr/ports/databases/php5-pdo_mysql make install the console gives me this error: ...
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How to set up file permissions/ownership for FTP/Apache/PHP on CentOS

I have basic understanding of chmod and CentOS file permissions. 777 stands for 111111111 and rwx for each root, group, user, etc. What I can't get my head around is setting up Apache, FTP and PHP to ...